| When one witness a bowling game where the | | | | smaller. The manager of the bowling alley, Mr. |
| players use balls and pins that are midget-like, he | | | | John Van Sant, hired a wood turner to customize |
| is witnessing a duckpin bowling competition. | | | | the balls and pins. The people loved the new |
| Beginnings | | | | game and played it. |
| Duckpin bowling was born somewhere in the | | | | By the 1930s, around 200,000 people were |
| 1900's in the eastern part of the United States. | | | | playing the game. It has continuously gained |
| Duckpin is believed to have been born in the | | | | popularity because people who wanted the fun of |
| bowling alley which was owned by the famous | | | | ten-pin bowling but hated the stress and |
| baseball players Wilbert Robinson and John | | | | backaches caused by the game quickly shifted to |
| Mcgraw. History has it that people back then had | | | | duckpin bowling. |
| an interesting idea of making the pins and balls | | | | |